There are those who dispute the notion that humans have had a significant effect on the planet. They dispute the idea that humanity has entered the anthropocene, a period in which the extent of human …

Writing on his Dot Earth blog Andy Revkin has dubbed Peter Kareiva the “inconvenient environmentalist,” and I don’t disagree. Kareiva is the chief scientist of the world’s biggest environmental group, …

You may have heard the news during the last day or so, that after 20 years of drilling in Antarctica Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice …

For most people the plight of life in the oceans is hard to bring home. Oceans are distant, and most life is hidden beneath the seas. But that doesn’t mean the oceans are not threatened. To assess the …